Scary Movie 3
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Scary Movie 3 (2003) is an American comedy film directed by David Zucker and is the third film of the Scary Movie franchise. This movie, like all others is a parody of many horror movies.
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[edit] Plot
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Katie (Jenny McCarthy) tells Becca (Pamela Anderson) about a tape she saw which allegedly kills people seven days after watching it. Shortly afterwards, Becca finds Katie sitting in a chair dead, but she is oblivious to this fact even though her head falls off when she shakes her. Soon afterwards, something comes out of their television and advances towards Becca, two cross hairs pointing at her breasts.
In a farm outside Washington, D.C., Tom Logan (Charlie Sheen) is woken by a girl screaming. Tom goes outside to investigate and meets his brother George (Simon Rex). They discover a crop circle. When it's shown from above the circles make up an arrow with a sign pointing to the farm that reads "ATTACK HERE".
In Washington D.C., Cindy Campbell, an anchorwoman, goes to pick up her nephew Cody (Drew Mikuska) at school, who according to Cindy's friend and Cody's teacher Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall) has been having visions. George Logan arrives and invites Cindy and Brenda to a rap-off.
At the rap-off, George faces Fat Joe, who rants about George's ethnicity and childhood at the farm. George counters by rapping about how he is proud of being white and is cheered for by the crowd. George then flips his hood up, which resembled a hood worn by the Ku Klux Klan. He is then thrown out of the club, and tells Mahalik (Anthony Anderson) that he has quit the rap business.
After the rap-off Cindy goes to Brenda's house that night and Brenda tells her that she watched the killer tape and needs protection. Tabitha the ghost comes out of Brenda's TV, knocks Brenda over and strangles her. Cindy finds her body. At Brenda's funeral, Cindy gets the killer tape which Brenda watched and takes it home with her. George and Mahalik arrive and are told that they are at a wake. They mistake this for the fact that Brenda is not dead, and try to revive her.
Meanwhile, Cindy watches the tape and gets a call from Tabitha who tells her she will die in seven days. She calls George, CJ and Mahalik, and they rush to her apartment. CJ comments his Aunt Shaneequa is an oracle and she could help Cindy. She goes to see her and leaves George to look after Cody. Aunt Shaneequa (Queen Latifah) and her husband Orpheus (Eddie Griffin) agree to help and Cindy gives them a copy of the killer tape. After watching a segment of it Aunt Shaneequa discovers a backmasked picture of a lighthouse and she tells Cindy to find it.When Cindy returns home, Cody has just watched the tape.
At work, Cindy looks through various pictures of lighthouses and finds the one in the tape, but she leaves the tape behind and her boss grabs it. Cindy arrives at the lighthouse where she meets The Architect (George Carlin) who tells her the real story of Tabitha and how the killer tape got out in the world, The Architect had rented Pootie Tang but accidentally returned the killer tape in Pootie Tang's box. He also says that Tabitha was their evil daughter and that his wife drowned her in the family's farm well while he thought a time-out would have worked. Meanwhile in the White House, President Baxter Harris (Leslie Nielsen) and his main agent, Agent Johnson (Ja Rule) begin worrying about the Extraterrestrial Invasion warnings that Cindy Campbell had given in the news show and after destroying a Mother Teresa award ceremony believing that a lot of people there were extraterrestrials in disguise, Johnson and President Harris go to look for Cindy in the Logan Farm.
Upon arriving home again, Cindy discovers that her news show has broadcasted the killer in the airwaves for hours and now several people are in danger, she thinks things out and decides to go to the Logan Farm where she knows the extraterrestrials will land. In the Logan Farm, Tom has everybody in the house go into the basement for refuge while he, George and Mahalik go outside to fight off the extraterrestrials. Suddenly, two extraterrestrials sneak up behind Mahalik, Tom and George when Secret Serviceman Jones and President Baxter Harris arrive and accidentally run them over. Baxter tells them he came looking for Cindy since he claims that she may hold the key in defeating the extraterrestrials. Baxter then notices the UFOs mistaking them as the Air Force in those "new round planes." Just as the UFOs get closer, CJ arrives with an army of rappers and among them are Master P, RZA, Raekwon, Method Man, Redman, Macy Gray and U-God. However, they have an argument and shoot each other dead.
After that, the aliens strangle Tom, George, Mahalik, CJ, Baxter, and Secret Serviceman Jones, Mahalik breaks free and knocks the head off of one of the extraterrestrials claiming "without their heads, they're powerless". The extraterrestrials' leader (voiced by Tom Kenny who also voiced the other extraterrestrials present) speaks and reveals they came to Earth because they need to kill Tabitha since they watched the killer tape, believing it to be Pootie Tang. When Mahalik asks why they were choking them, the extraterrestrials explain that strangulation is how they say greet one another. When George asks how they say goodbye, an extraterrestrial kicks him in the genitals. Showing more of their oddity, one of the extraterrestrials shows them that they pee through their pointer finger which disgusts Tom at the moment that one of the extraterrestrials put his pointer in his mouth. President Baxter Harris quotes that the humans and extraterrestrials aren't that different after all and he pees through his pointer finger.
In the basement, Cindy recognizes a shot from the killer tape and then makes a hole in the wood and she finds the well where Tabitha drowned; suddenly Tabitha appears behind her. George goes to look for Cindy and then finds Tabitha attacking her, after a short battle Tabitha pretends the curse is broken so she can attack them (Tabitha (apperring as a beautiful young girl):"Thank you your love has broken the curse and freed my soul i'll never have to kill again" Cindy: "really?" Tabitha (apperring again as a evil monster): "Nah, I'm just screwing with ya!") but as she prepares to attack, President Harris opens the door behind Tabitha and knocks her into the well. (President, not realizing what he just did: "I just wanted to tell you two good luck, we're all counting on you".) George seals the well and the curse is over. George and Cindy get married with everybody, including the extraterrestrials and Aunt Shaneequa, in the ceremony. As George and Cindy drive away they accidentally leave Cody behind. When they back up the car they are about to hit Cody but stop just in time; however, a car coming from another direction hits Cody and throws him through the air as the movie ends and the credits roll.
[edit] Parodies
The plot of the film intertwines parodies of several other films and other media such as:
- Pamela Anderson's sex tape - when Pamela Anderson asks Jenny McCarthy whether she heard about the video (meaning the one from The Ring), the latter replies with "The one where they do it on the boat, then in the car, then in the bathtub? And he's like, "Hey, baby, I love you?", obviously referring to Pamela's infamous sex tape and even doing an impression of Tommy Lee.
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Becca's mom sounds like Gollum and even utter the phrase, "My precious".
- Psycho - Becca discovers Kathy sitting in a chair is a mummified corpse.
- Airplane! - Leslie Nielsen's line "I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you" is repeated multiple times later in the film.
- Air Force One - The President refers to a picture of Harrison Ford in the White House as "President Ford."
- The Ring - Main Parody
- The Others - Michael Jackson Scene
- 8 Mile - The rap battle and CJ throwing paint at people from the car.
- Malibu's Most Wanted - The rap scene and when George gets thrown out of the club
- Signs - Main Parody
- The Matrix - Brenda vs. Tabitha, The Oracle and Morpheus
- Bruce Almighty - Scene where Cindy edits the newsreaders text
- The Matrix Reloaded - The scene with the Architect. Scenes from the alternate ending
- Jeopardy! - Brief scene where the scores show up on the screens inside the lighthouse.
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Tabitha had a chainsaw and was swinging it the same way like Leatherface did.
- Pootie Tang - A copy was rented by the Architect character and the cursed tape was sent back instead.
- American Idol - During the rap-off scene, Simon Cowell, the sarcastic British judge of American Idol, is asked to comment on a rap battle he had just viewed, and he gives it a horrible review, leading the pistol-wielding audience to riddle him with bullets.
[edit] Cast
- Anna Faris - Cindy Campbell
- Regina Hall - Brenda Meeks
- Simon Rex - George Logan
- Camryn Manheim - Trooper Champlin
- Pamela Anderson - Becca
- Jenny McCarthy - Kate
- Drew Mikuska - Cody
- Leslie Nielsen - President Harris
- Charlie Sheen - Tom Logan
- Denise Richards - Annie Logan
- Fat Joe - Himself
- Marny Eng - Tabitha
- George Carlin - Architect
- Ja Rule - Agent Thompson
- D. L. Hughley - John Wilson
- Queen Latifah - Aunt Shaneequa/The Oracle
- Anthony Anderson - Mahalik
- Kevin Hart - CJ
- Eddie Griffin - Orpheus
- Darrell Hammond - Father Muldoon
- Simon Cowell - Himself
- Edward Moss - MJ (Michael Jackson)
- Tom Kenny - Aliens (voice, uncredited)
- Klimaszewski Twins - Coors Light Twins
- Jeremy Piven - Ross Giggins
[edit] Rapper cameos
In one memorable scene many rappers appeared to assist in the climactic battle with the aliens and a shootout ensued between them in which no one survived. They were played by:
Something significant about these cameos is that four rappers (Raekwon, Method Man, U-God and RZA) are members of the rap group Wu-Tang Clan. Method Man and Redman also formed a duo together.
[edit] Alternate scenes
The DVD edition includes a director's audio commentary, several deleted scenes and alternative endings (with optional commentary). A "3.5" special DVD was also released, but contained the same material as the original DVD with an unrated version of the film that is largely identical with more scenes.
In an alternate ending, Cindy is told Cody doesn't exist, after hitting a few people in the face with a shovel, Cindy tells everybody who isn't real to stand over at a different spot, Cody goes over there, but is followed by Santa Claus. Followed by that, the aliens begin to invade but George stops them by transforming into The Hulk. President Harris tries to Hulk Out, but ends up soiling his pants. The cast then gets into a car with the President, but are horrified to learn that the driver is the man who accidentally killed Tom's wife.
One of the scenes that appeared on the Extended DVD named Scary Movie 3.5 was part of the unrated feature. After Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy shut off the TV, the two compliment each other on their good looks. Anderson then mentions if McCarthy wants her "shaved pussy", but it turns out to be a furless kitten.
In an extended scene, it is revealed that the person who runs Cody down during the end is Michael Jackson.
[edit] Reception
The film came in at number 1 at the box office for 2 weeks in a row.
- Gross Worldwide Takings: $220,673,217
- US Gross Domestic Takings: $ 110,003,217
- International Takings (outside the US): $110,670,000
Reviews were mixed, but the consensus was that it was a marked improvement on the previous installment. The film received a 38% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 48% on Metacritic.[1][2]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Scary Movie 3 at the Internet Movie Database
- Scary Movie 3 at Allmovie
- Scary Movie 3 at Rotten Tomatoes
- Scary Movie 3 at Metacritic
- Scary Movie 3 at Box Office Mojo
| Preceded by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
Box office number-one films of 2003 (USA) October 26 - November 2 |
Succeeded by The Matrix Revolutions |
| Preceded by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
Box office number-one films of 2004 (UK) January 25 - February 1 |
Succeeded by School of Rock |
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